New Databases
As the end of the fiscal year looms, we have been working hard to spending up every last dollar in our budgets. Here are the latest additions to our A-Z list (and you might notice that this list has had some upgrades!).
Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS) This resource makes it possible for researchers to easily and quickly access and review selected previously classified government documents online through the Declassified Documents Reference System. This digital collection fills a gap in post-World War II domestic and foreign policy studies.
Ethnic NewsWatch: A History Whereas we once only had a subscription to Ethnic Newswatch (which covers articles from 1990 to the present), we now also have Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, or the complete Ethnic NewsWatch backfile to 1959. This includes full-text of American ethnic newspapers, magazines, and journals in English and Spanish. There is no new interface here, though–both searches happen at the same time.
Index to Printed Music This resource indexes music from ancient Greek times to the present. It can be useful for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with hundreds of thousands of records of individual music works.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (IIMP) A music journal resource with more than 770,000 articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 425 international music periodicals, plus full text for around 140 journals. IIMP Full Text covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Articles examine the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.
Routledge Performance Archive
Ovid Nursing Ebooks We have access to two Ovid ebook collections in the subject area of nursing: LWW JBI Collection 2014 and Nursing Book Collection 2013 (306 titles total)
RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature A bibliography of music articles, collections, and books published before 1967, offers researchers and music scholars thousands of records from a critical period in music research.
Routledge Performance Archive A developing resource produced in partnership with Digital Theatre, providing unique access to an unprecedented range of audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance.
Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana – A Dictionary of Books Relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 is an online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Covering a span of 400 years in North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean.
SAGE Research Methods A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods contains content from over 720 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and “Little Blue Book” series, two Major Works collating a selection of journal articles, and specially commissioned videos.
New Titles
The following is a new ebook that can also be found on the A-Z list and will soon be added to the CUNY catalog as well:
Scientific Style and Format Guide Online, 8th Edition Now in its eighth edition, the reference for authors, editors, publishers, students, and translators in all areas of science and related fields has been fully revised by the Council of Science Editors to reflect today’s best practices in scientific publishing.
The following are new electronic journal subscriptions. These titles can be found using the Journals tab on our main website, or by searching for them in the CUNY catalog:
Anthropology Now
Grey Room
Life Writing
London Review of Books
Modern Intellectual History
Wasafiri
Trial Databases
Our current list of trial databases include these recent additions:
- Black Abolitionist Papers The Graduate Center has access to this trial through May 25, 2014. American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves.
- Kanopy The Graduate Center has access to Kanopy through May 18, 2014. Kanopy offers a variety of streaming videos, and our trial includes 819 films from the Arts, Film Studies, Gender Studies and Nursing collections.
- Language Resources: Mango Languages All CUNY libraries have access to Mango Languages through May 15, 2014. Rosetta Stone All CUNY libraries have a trial to Rosetta Stone through June 18, 2014. *Please Note that in order to use this trial, you must create your own personal account for access.Please speak to a librarian if you have questions.
- Literature Online The Graduate Center has access to Literature Online through May 25, 2014. Literature Online is an online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English.
- PBS Video Collection All of CUNY has access to this trial through May 17. The PBS Video Collection assembles hundreds of documentary films and series from the history of PBS into one interface.
Resource Not Being Renewed
We have decided not to renew our subscription to Routledge Reference Online. We will have access through May 31, 2014, so if there is an item that you need to use, please take advantage before that date.
This post is the latest addition to a series designed to keep the GC community updated about electronic resources available through the Graduate Center Library.
